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If you left it on 24/7 how would you know it failed? Anyway the answer to your question: There are two ways to power the BlacX up or down.

1.) The cheap and simple way is to yank the power plug out of the wall plug or reinstall it.

2.) The more elegant way, but will cost you a couple of dollars, is that GE makes a small gizmo that you plug into the wall plug and then plug the BlacX into that. The GE gizmo has a small standard wall switch built into it.

You don't need the switch as far as I know. If it fails off (open), you'll know. If it fails on, you'll not see anything different happen that would lead you to believe the switch is broken.

As long as the drive isn't stored in a closed off area you don't need a fan. As I said above I used that enclosure for years, fanless, and it never overheated, no drive failure, etc. Fans just create noise that can ruin the viewing experience.

I might go ahead and try again. I will say though that I returned the first one, because it happened really quickly (>week), and the same thing happened with the second. I saw in reviews/reports here and on Amazon that it wasn't that rare and decided to go back to the Antec. ... Which really doesn't seem like an option now, since the best price I can find via Google search is $65+ outrageous shipping, which is pretty ridiculous for an enclosure.

The way my set-up is, the hard drive will be kept on a shelf that is closed on three sides (open to front). It's not especially crowded, but it's also not totally open, either. There's really no other place for it to be.

Get a new TT dock. Plug it in. If you don't see a power light come on, turn the switch on. If the HR recognizes the HDD in the dock, don't touch the on/off button on the dock ever again. Just pull out the cord to shut it down. I've got one with a failed switch that failed on and I've been using it without problems for a couple years.

You won't have any problems with heat or noise (unless the HDD is noisy). If your location is a problem, make sure when you move things around you don't knock the dock over, if it's on, the HDD may be damaged when it falls.

We have 3 of them currently, each with a 1TB drive, on 2 HR24s and a HR21.

Assuming you bought the enclosure from Amazon, how do you make a link to them? For about 6 months I haven't been able to do that because I get a line across the top of the page that says I bought this item and gives me the option to buy it again or something like that and when I preview the post the link shows my sign in page at Amazon. Must be a setting on Amazon, but I can't find it.

We'll just have to agree to disagree. I have an HR21 with a fanless enclosure in the same room as my HR34 with an enclosure with a fan. There's definitely not a "10-15 degree" difference. More like about 2 or 3, tops.

Like I said previously... As long as the drive isn't stored in a closed off area you don't need a fan.

I think the WD drives are rated at about 150 degrees. They don't get nearly that hot in a dock. Of course, you don't want to stick them in a closed cabinet.

We have 3 of them currently, each with a 1TB drive, on 2 HR24s and a HR21.

I did get one of these with a WD20EURS (2 TB Western Digital Hard Drive) and was impressed with how easy it was to set up (slide out drive bay), how quiet the fan was and how solid the enclosure felt. It's only been up and running a few days but so far, so good.

I did get one of these with a WD20EURS (2 TB Western Digital Hard Drive) and was impressed with how easy it was to set up (slide out drive bay), how quiet the fan was and how solid the enclosure felt. It's only been up and running a few days but so far, so good.

Assuming you bought the enclosure from Amazon, how do you make a link to them? For about 6 months I haven't been able to do that because I get a line across the top of the page that says I bought this item and gives me the option to buy it again or something like that and when I preview the post the link shows my sign in page at Amazon. Must be a setting on Amazon, but I can't find it.

Rich

Beats me Rich...I just looked it up in my order history, clicked on the link in the order and copied and pasted the resulting URL. I get the line at the top about when I last ordered it too, but if I logout I get the same page without the "You purchased this item..." line. I don't remember changing any settings.

Assuming you bought the enclosure from Amazon, how do you make a link to them? For about 6 months I haven't been able to do that because I get a line across the top of the page that says I bought this item and gives me the option to buy it again or something like that and when I preview the post the link shows my sign in page at Amazon. Must be a setting on Amazon, but I can't find it.

Rich

I don't know if this is the same for poster you quoted, but when I make links from Amazon I just copy the link shown on the address bar of my browser. No setting was changed.